Pinnick demands 200% from Eagles

President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has restated his charge to Super Eagles players, saying they must give 200 per cent every time they play for the country.

“We have told all players that from henceforth when they see an invite we expect that once you accept to come, you must be ready to give 200 per cent for the country,” africanFootball.com quoted Pinnick as saying at a press conference in Abuja.

“That is why we are having the code of conduct. So, it is not business as usual.

“We have asked players to think over an invitation before they accept to come and don the white and green colours.”

The team begins its quest to feature at the 2017 African Nations Cup against Chad next month.

The NFF boss equally gave more insight to the recent kit contract the country entered with Nike.

“We had a lot of challenges securing sponsors. I almost wept signing money for us to buy jerseys. I started this Nike talks in Malabo,” he offered.

“For Nike to even say yes, I know people I talked to before they eventually called me for a meeting. I am not telling you that it’s a dream contract because if you want to have a dream contract you must achieve some mileage for instance winning the World Cup.

“We had to do a lot of convincing before getting this deal. For the fact that we are not going to buy jerseys, we are going to get accumulated bonuses better than some big countries.

“But the truth is that the contract process was tricky, that is why we did not make it public initially.

“If we had made it public like many Nigerians had wanted, maybe today we would not have a sponsor. But today we can beat our chest to say we signed with the biggest brand.”